Journey to America
Mercantilism was the principle that...
the purpose of colonies was to economically benefit the mother country
This colony is known for benefitting economically from agricultural, and shipping of minerals throughout the colonies...
Southern Colonies
First SUCCESSFUL colony in North America
Jamestown
What is Salutary Neglect?
The event in which colonial governments were becoming more independent of British authority.
The British began to "neglect" the colonies.
What was the Great Awakening?
a series of religious revivals that swept across the American colonies in the middle of the 18th Century
The system known as "Triangular Trade" involved which three countries?
Africa, North America, and Europe
The differences in the economic development of the mid-Atlantic (Middle Colonies), New England, and Southern colonies can BEST be attributed to the
Geographic Conditions
Which group of Europeans settled along the Appalachian Mountains?
Scotch-Irish
The American colonies developed a separate culture from Great Britain during the era of colonization due to the fact that...
colonists and Britain were geographically separated by a great distance
What product was instrumental in bringing about economic stability in the early years of the Virginia colony?
Tobacco
The "Breadbasket Colonies" are a nickname for which group of colonies?
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Which freedom was most important to the British settlers who originally settled Pennsylvania?
Religious Freedom
Which war marked the end of salutary neglect in Colonial America?
French and Indian War
The first written plan of self-government of an American colony was the
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Mayflower Compact was the first agreement to establish government, but did not provide specific rules like the Fundamental Orders
· Quakers
· Catholics
· religious tolerance
· flexible social structure
All of these terms are associated with what colonial North American region?
Middle Colonies
How did enslaved Africans in the colonial South develop a culture of their own?
new forms of Christianity, foods, art, and music
How was self-governance practiced in the colonies during the period of salutary neglect?
- Town Meetings
- House of Burgesses (Virginia)
Jonathan Edwards famous sermon is known as....
"Sinners in the hands of an angry God"
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was different from the Plymouth Colony because in Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay Colony had a more prosperous economy and was more religiously strict than Plymouth
The Puritans and the Pilgrims came to North America to escape religious persecution. Puritan and Pilgrims ideas have had a major impact on the social norms of what region?
New England Colonies
Why was the Maryland Act of Toleration important in the British colonies in North America?
It allowed for religious freedom for anyone believing in Jesus Christ, no matter what denomination.
"Bacon's Rebellion" was mainly caused by
economic hardship and distrust of Virginia colonists who were unable to acquire land
How did Anne Hutchinson's thoughts and feelings on religion relate to a future US amendment?
She felt that people should have the right to worship without the government influencing their beliefs. (Separation of Church and State)